CERN as an Institute for International Cooperation.

The article reports on the creation of the European Center for Nuclear Research (CERN). Scientists have always recognized the importance of free communications and free access to knowledge wherever it happens to be available. CERN is serving as an information and discussion center for scientists who are engaged in the development and construction of accelerators in their respective countries. Its founders hoped to equip Europe with a reasonable number and variety of accelerators that will enable European physicists to make a fairly wide contribution to research in the field of high energy physics.